ALLUVIAL SOIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alluvial soil mean? 

• ALLUVIAL SOIL (noun)
  The noun ALLUVIAL SOIL has 1 sense:

1. a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds

  Familiarity information: ALLUVIAL SOIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLUVIAL SOIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("alluvial soil" is a kind of...):

dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)

Holonyms ("alluvial soil" is a substance of...):

alluvial deposit; alluvial sediment; alluvion; alluvium (clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down)